Professor Oikawa teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to Canadian settler colonialism. She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians.

Professor Oikawa teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to Canadian settler colonialism.She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians.

Degrees

PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests

Sociology , Gender Issues , Critical race studies, Cultural studies

Current Research Projects

Racial Formation in a Settler Society: Japanese Canadians' Relationship to Colonialism

Project Type: FundedFunders:Graduate Assistant FundFaculty of Graduate Studies, York University

All Publications

Books

Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory and the Subjects of the Internment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 474 pages.

Professor Oikawa teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to Canadian settler colonialism. She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians.

Professor Oikawa teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, gender, and cultural studies. She is currently researching Japanese Canadians' relationship to Canadian settler colonialism.She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians.

Degrees

PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests:

Sociology , Gender Issues , Critical race studies, Cultural studies

Current Research Projects

Racial Formation in a Settler Society: Japanese Canadians' Relationship to Colonialism